Day thirty one - Wednesday

Today was pretty much a travel day. We left the Cherry Hill Campground at around 10:30 and headed north. A little over 100 miles later we had left Maryland and re-entered Pennsylvania. We drove through, but did not stop in, York, Pa. From there we headed east.

When we got to Lancaster, Pa, we found the freeway being blocked at various locations. At one point we got off the freeway but found our path blocked by police cars. I made a u-turn on the freeway overpass and got back on the freeway eastbound. It was then I realized we were the only vehicle on the freeway! Kinda spooky. A couple of miles behind us they were blocking the freeway with dump trucks. I didn't know what was going on but it looked like the prudent move would be to get off the freeway ASAP. At the next exit we found a large shopping center and got off. Traffic was being diverted here too but we were able to get into the shopping center lot.

I turned on local radio and the TV trying to figure out what was going on. Finally the news came on and we learned the president was in town. That figures! We spend ten days in DC and don't see any evidence of presidential presence. We drive over a hundred miles and suddenly we can't get where we want to go because he's in town.

We spent a while at the shopping center, did some grocery shopping and then continued east after the traffic opened up. Pretty soon we were at our campground. We're going to spend a couple of days at the Country Acres Campground in Bird in Hand, Pa.

We had a nice dinner, a game of Scrabble and watched lots of baseball along with the final episode of Top Chef.